Senator John McCain’s claim that concerns about Huma Abedin are a smear based on “a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations” proves more embarrassing by the day. In fact, to the extent it addressed Ms. Abedin, the letter sent to the State Department’s inspector general by five House conservatives actually understated the case.

The letter averred that Abedin “has three family members — her late father, her mother and her brother — connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations.” It turns out, however, that Abedin herself is directly connected to Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major Muslim Brotherhood figure involved in the financing of al-Qaeda. Abedin worked for a number of years at the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs as assistant editor of its journal. The IMMA was founded by Naseef, who remained active in it for decades, overlapping for several years with Abedin. Naseef was also secretary general of the Muslim World League in Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most significant Muslim Brotherhood organization in the world. In that connection, he founded the Rabita Trust, which is formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization under American law due to its support of al-Qaeda.

You ought to be able to stop right there.

A person is not required to have done anything wrong to be denied a high-ranking government position, or more immediately, the security clearance allowing access to classified information that is necessary to function in such a job. There simply need be associations, allegiances, or interests that establish a potential conflict of interest.

Government jobs and access to the nation’s secrets are privileges, not rights. That is why the potential conflict needn’t stem from one’s own associations with hostile foreign countries, organizations, or persons. Vicarious associations, such as one’s parents’ connections to troublesome persons and organizations, are sufficient to create a potential conflict.

In this instance, however, before you even start probing the extensive, disturbing Brotherhood ties of her family members, Huma Abedin should have been ineligible for any significant government position based on her own personal and longstanding connection to Naseef’s organization.

Specifically, Ms. Abedeen was affiliated with the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, where she was assistant editor of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. The journal was the IMMA’s raison d’etre. Abedin held the position of assistant editor from 1996 through 2008 — from when she began working as an intern in the Clinton White House until shortly before she took her current position as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff.

The IMMA was founded in the late 1970s by Abdullah Omar Naseef, who was then the vice president of the prestigious King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. The IMMA’s chief product was to be its journal. For the important position of managing editor, Naseef recruited his fellow academic Zyed Abedin, who had been a visiting professor at the university in the early 1970s.

To join the IMMA, Dr. Abedin moved his family, including infant daughter Huma (born in 1976), to Saudi Arabia from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Zyed’s wife, Saleha Mahmood Abedin (Huma’s mother), is also an academic and worked for the journal from its inception. She would eventually take it over after her husband died in 1993, and she remains its editor to this day. Huma Abedin’s brother Hassan, another academic, is an associate editor at the journal.

The journal began publishing in 1979. For its initial edition, Abdullah Omar Naseef — identified in the masthead as “Chairman, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs” — penned a brief introduction relating the IMMA’s vision for the journal. Zyed Abedin appeared as managing editor in the journal’s second edition in 1979, proclaiming in a short introduction his “deep appreciation to H.E. Dr. Abdullah O. Naseef, President, King Abdulaziz University, for his continued guidance, support, and encouragement.” (I am indebted to the Center for Security Policy, which obtained some copies of the journal, going back many years.)

Not long after the journal started, Naseef became the secretary general of the Muslim World League, the Saudi-financed global propagation enterprise by which the Muslim Brotherhood’s virulently anti-Western brand of Islamist ideology is seeded throughout the world, very much including in the United States.

We are not talking here about some random imam in the dizzying alphabet soup of Islamist entities. In the pantheon of Islamic supremacism, there are few positions more critical than secretary general of the Muslim World League. In fact, one of the MWL’s founders was Sa’id Ramadan, the right-hand and son-in-law of Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood’s legendary founder.

The MWL manages the “civilization jihad” — the Brotherhood’s commitment to destroy the West from within, and to “conquer” it by sharia proselytism (or dawa), as Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the Brotherhood’s top sharia jurist, puts it.
Nevertheless, the MWL has a long history of deep involvement in violent jihad as well.

It was under MWL auspices in 1988 that Naseef created a “charity” called the Rabita Trust. The scare-quotes around “charity” are intentional. To direct the Rabita Trust, Naseef selected Wael Hamza Jalaidan. A few years earlier, Jalaidan had joined with Osama bin Laden to form al-Qaeda.

This would surprise you only if you waste your time listening to John McCain, Version 2012 — as opposed to John McCain, Version 2011, who professed himself “unalterably opposed” to the Muslim Brotherhood.

As Reliance instructs, zakat can only be given to Muslims, and one-eighth of it is supposed to be donated to “those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster.” Remember that the next time you hear the ubiquitous claim that Muslim charities are being misused as “fronts” for terrorism. This is not a “misuse” and they are not “fronts.” Under sharia, the streaming of donations to violent jihadists is quite intentional.

A month after the 9/11 attacks, Naseef’s Rabitah Trust was formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States government. Ultimately, branches of the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and the International Islamic Relief Organization – other “charities” with roots in the MWL — were also designated as foreign terrorist organizations under federal law. This, too, should have not been a surprise. In 2003, in connection with a terrorism prosecution in Chicago, the Justice Department proffered that Osama bin Laden had told his aide Jamal al-Fadl that the Muslim World League was one of al-Qaeda’s three top funding sources. (Fadl later renounced al-Qaeda and cooperated with federal prosecutors.)

Throughout the time that he ran the MWL and the Rabita Trust, Naseef kept his hand in at the IMMA. In fact, he continued to be listed on the masthead as a member of the “advisory editorial board” at the IMMA’s journal until 2003. We might hazard a guess why his name disappeared after that: in 2004, he was named as a defendant in the civil case brought by victims of the 9/11 atrocities. (In 2010, a federal court dropped him from the suit — not because he was found uninvolved, but because a judge reasoned the American court lacked personal jurisdiction over him.)

Huma Abedin was affiliated with the IMMA’s journal for a dozen years, from 1996 through 2008. She overlapped with its founder, Naseef, for at least seven years — it could be more, but I am assuming for argument’s sake that Naseef had no further involvement in his institute once his name was removed from the masthead.

The case against Ms. Abedin’s suitability for a high-level position with access to the nation’s secrets gets much worse if you add in her family ties.

To summarize what I’ve already outlined here at Ordered Liberty: her parents were recruited by Naseef to head up the IMMA; her mother is an active member of Muslim Brotherhood organizations — including the Muslim Sisterhood and two entities that are part of Sheikh Qaradawi’s Union of Good, another designated terrorist organization; there is persuasive evidence that her father was a member of the Brotherhood — e.g., the intimate tie to Naseef and his widow’s membership in the Muslim Sisterhood (which is substantially comprised of wives and female relatives of prominent Muslim Brothers); her mother is a tireless advocate of sharia law as preached by Qaradawi and the Brotherhood; and her brother, who is also affiliated with the IMMA’s journal, was a fellow at an Islamist institute (the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies) on whose board sat both Naseef and Qaradawi.

Nevertheless, the family ties to the Brotherhood only further elucidate what is already patent: Huma Abedin’s connection to Abdullah Omar Naseef, by itself, would have been more than enough justification to deny her a security clearance. That would have made it inconceivable that she could serve as deputy chief of staff to the secretary of state.

Ms. Abedin has very disturbing connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. Though she is not a policymaker, she is an important adviser, and during her three-year tenure, federal government policy has radically shifted in the Brotherhood’s favor, to the point that the Obama administration is not only embracing the previously shunned Brotherhood but issuing visas to members of formally designated terrorist organizations.

The question is not whether the five House conservatives were off-base in asking for an investigation into ties between administration officials and Islamist organizations. The question is why the other 430 members of the House haven’t joined them — and why John McCain, John Boehner, and other Republican establishment luminaries are championing the Muslim Brotherhood’s side of the dispute.

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Donald Pittenger

Abedin’s mother and I were Sociology teaching assistants at Penn back in the late 1960′s. She always wore traditional (but expensive-looking) Pakistani clothing. Saleha never interacted with the rest of us any more than professionally necessary. I chalked it up to her being a foreigner tossed into a mob of talkative Yanks. Perhaps there was more to it even in those days, but I don’t read minds.

Accusing McCain, Boehner, et al of having Muslim Brotherhood sympathies is frankly giving them too much credit. Based on previous observations I’m going with the Occam’s Razor approach. What we got here is the Sir Galahad phenomenon wherein they feel it necessary to chivalrously rush to the aid of a pretty lass. Whether as a cheap opportunity to show the Left that they don’t hate women after all or simply a stimulus response without any engagement of the cerebral cortex.

By way of example, I hereby reference the 1997 Kelly Flinn scandal. She was one of the feminist Golden Girls promoted in the wake of the Tailhook scandal and The Year of the Woman to become the Air Force’s first female B-52 pilot and recruiting poster doyenne. She promptly made a spectacle of herself by first boffing an enlisted subordinate, then repeatedly riding the hobbyhorse with the civilian husband of another enlisted subordinate, even after she was formally warned by her command to stop.

When this blew up, then majority leader Trent Lott rose gallantly to the little lady’s defense–not knowing the first thing about her or her misdeeds. He made a complete ass of himself (not for the first nor last time) for no good reason. I think what we’re looking at here is a similar performance, either that, or it’s another one of those gestures of “collegiality” that always seem to go in one direction only.

A book entitle Arabists, the romance of the American Elite, by Robert Kaplan, should be required reading by anyone interested in the Middle East. The attitudes of that elite, clustered in the Dept of State, are very damaging to the USA’s foreign policy towards the Middle East.

It is about time that these Muslim Brotherhood connections of Abedin are becoming publicized. I remember reading about these when she married Weiner. Who is JEWISH. At the time, pre Internet Follies, I believe he was slated to be on some committee dealing with foreign affairs.

I can’t think of any better deep cover for what our Russian friends in the espionage business call a “resident” than to marry a very liberal & somewhat foolish Jewish man. After all, the marriage is NOT RECOGNIZED in Islam. It is simply “unlawful”. But this is a non-recognized marriage anyway: a US civil marriage. So there is no harm done.

Not much different from breeding your daughter with a black communist and using communist connections in Seattle, Honolulu, and, later, Indonesia and the US to build a legend for a deep sleeper that with the help of Soros-organized Muslim money you intall as President of the US to carry out your plans for the US’ demise as a World power.

I used to think we were being a little paranoid with your thoughts. Call us anything you want, but commonsense starts to take over. Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire. Now I think that our ‘lawmakers’ have their heads in the sand and hope it all goes away before sundown. Somebody better wake up and save the treasury and our country. I don’t think the people in there right now are going to do it….

As for your link I don’t see it as relevant. It is officially stated there that Islamic men can marry Jews and Christians (though it is frowned upon) but Islamic women can not marry any non-Islamic men. The assertion that this would be ok because it is civil marriage only doesn’t seem to hold. The worry would still be that the man would dominate the woman and she would go off the path whereas in an Islamic marriage between Islamic male and non-Islamic female the male would dominate. The actual means of marriage is not the issue. I think we should assume the plainest meaning after all these are the advocates for the most literal sharia.

If we look at the plain meaning we have a bigger problem explaining the marriage. Is it simply for show and the baby is not his? Did Weiner undergo some sort of sharia acceptable conversion process (more likely)?

By the way under Jewish law Weiner is not Jewish and I cling to that. Believe me I cling to that.

Don’t know where you get the idea that “according to Jewish law Weiner is not Jewish”. I saw a video of his mother being asked if she was Jewish and she said she was. That’s all that is needed to be Jewish – being born to a Jewish woman. Except of course conversion.

The question is not whether the five House conservatives were off-base in asking for an investigation into ties between administration officials and Islamist organizations. The question is why the other 430 members of the House haven’t joined them — and why John McCain, John Boehner, and other Republican establishment luminaries are championing the Muslim Brotherhood’s side of the dispute.

That is the question.
The destiny of the West is at stake, the infiltration of western institutions by the islamist supremacist is nothing less than the trojan horse that can bring ruin to the city on the hill..

This seems so obvious, yet all of this infiltration and Saudi financed influence in places like Georgetown University with the Saudi “chair’ of something or other, along with that imam or professor there at Georgetown Univ. named…

….”İmam Yahya Hendihttp://www.imamyahyahendi.com/biography.htm
Imam Yahya Hendi is the Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, the first American University to hire a full-time Muslim chaplain. Imam Hendi is also the …”, end paste from out of Google.

Are these known Muslim Trojans convenient listening point/posts for our intelligence specialists? If so, fine….but I can’t believe, don’t want to believe that this lethal political correctness has gone so far. There’s way too many unknown enemy Muslims in our midst.

I hope responsible people in our current Congress are on “Muslim Watch”…..but where’s the evidence of common sense in our Congress?….in fighting this decade long war against these Trojan Muslims?….a War openly declared by these Muslims themselves against America?

I was in South east Asia for most of the 1960′s as a civilian, and therefore I cannot understand John McCain’s gentlemanly stance in our current embarrassment ….after what he’s been through there.

The parallels between Communist infiltration and subversion with these same practices of our current Muslim enemies are striking.

Where are the experienced Asia hands who should be aware…very aware…of our inexplicable domestic weaknesses?

I guess this explains why average American’s are now the “terrorists” in the government’s eyes. Looks like they have been quite succesful changing our country from the inside out. Welcome to the new world. No wonder Christians (not to be confused with liberation theologians) are the ultimate enemy of this administration.

With a little imagination, one can see the possibility that there could be connections to other leftist radical ideologies that aim to undermine American culture from the inside out. For example, the environmental movement. The book “Ecoscience” blatently outlines the goals and means to undermine America’s cultural institutions from the inside out. The environmental movement may also be a deceptively clever way to keep the power in the hands of Middle Eastern oil cartels.

This very issue is becoming obvious to the federal Canadian government: because of our very vague and loose definitions of ‘charity’, money is pouring in through huge American ‘charities’ like the Tides Foundation and the Moore foundations, and etc., aimed at slowing down development of our energy resources.

As one person said, given the structure of these organizations, who knows WHERE the money is coming from? One foundation has poured some $30 million into BC First Nations groups, in order to stop a pipeline going from Alberta to the Pacific.

There is indeed a very large part of Western society that despises our economy and our culture.

As to politicians, they are merely very silly, ignorant and shallow people. Just the kind of people who become eager ‘fellow travelers’ (to bring up an old, but increasingly relevant term.)

It brings a whole new understanding to the assault on “global warming deniers”. Under the new authoritarians, skepticism and dissent are not allowed, apostates are punished. They may not kill you, but they have no problem slandering and destroying reputations.

Yes and for all their little minions that so willingly bow down to the worship of the creation,”mother earth” rather then the creator, they are prepared for a one world religion in a new world order. It is a massive deception of diabolical proportions.

It was all so easy peasy. Distract them with cake and circuses and undermine their traditional values, then go in for the kill and take over. While our culture was drunk on lust and distracted by the frivolous our country as we once knew it passed away quietly into the night. When we awoke, everything we once had known was gone, like dust in the wind.

The evidence is overwhelming. There is no way this was a mistake or an oversight. Our federal government is openly and transparently aligned with the mooslim bruthahood; obama, hilary, only God knows how many others. Only a complete overthrow of these traitorous scumbags through the ballot box can solve the problem.

This election is crucial to the survival of our Republic as we know it. Please keep this story on the front page throughout the elections. We must stand strong and united. Stop with all the pusillanimous bromides and call these turncoats exactly what they are. It is time to choose sides – either you put America first, or you do not.

Mr. Goldman proposed in effect in an earlier article in PJ Media that, unless Human Abedin and her possible or real connections constituted a “smoking gun”, it would be advisable to not play up an uncertain matter in order to concentrate on the imagery of Obama inviting a Brother president and terrorist, etc. to the WH. The Abedin problematic could deflect from more central campaign issues. In other words, for a presidential campaign, the imagery of Obama and his invites is better than a hunt for compromising “facts” about Abedin with uncertain outcome. Such a hunt opens the door to charges of “McCarthyism”, etc. Does your current examination of the person about whom Rep. Bachmann & Co have merely raised a question now constitute a “smoking gun”?

This article does not provide any evidence that Huma Abedin is a Muslim Brotherhood operative. Absolutely nothing tangible is added to the nothingness in evidence provided by Michelle Bachmann and others that Huma Abedin is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.

She was an editor for a muslim minority journal, that does not publish anything sinister about the West, or call for violent acts against non-Muslims. So, what is really her crime? That the institute that publishes the journal was founded by someone affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood? And this should disqualify someone from having security clearance?

Serving in the capacity as the editor of a benign publication should not be a conflict of interest. The creator of the institute is irrelevant. Has she as an editor been publishing harmful messages? No. So, what else could be the problem, except that she is a Muslim? How many other people are being gone after for affiliations that are unsavory?

Ridiculous. Trent Franks is my congressman and I support him 110%. Why so much push back on what is a reasonable and entirely appropriate inquiry?

You gonna tell me that Hillary’s choice for a chief of staff is immune from inquiry in context with today’s issues but Condi Rice’s would have been likewise? Or that somehow Scooter Libby risked a future knowingly when serving but Huma blindly was drawn to Hillary?

A. McCarthy has been doing yoeman’s work in these important matters for years.
He’s right on.

All we ever get from the likes of you TellMeSumn is just more of the same – move along – nothing here to see. And when that isn’t enough – it’s HOW DARE YOU…both examples of weak argument.

It is the imperiousness of people like McCain and Clinton; the public can’t handle the truth, besides it being so important we must ‘protect them.’

Hey, politics ani’t bean bag. Such scrutiny comes with the territory. Nothing in YOUR RESPONSE convinces why she should get a pass. I mean it is one thing pre-Arab Spring that she wouldn’t raise much suspicion.

If she finds the heat too much she can always go back to the private sector where they welcome her with her background and all the networking she can bring to it.

Things are not done that way. If it were so, anybody can bring any trumped up charges against anyone, and ask for investigation. I’m sure the intelligence community has better things to do than to go after anybody a sector of society does not like.

No one said anything about not liking her. Why do you insist on making this personal? You are putting feelings ahead of reality. That is your problem. The reality is she has a conflict of interest when it comes to the Muslim Brotherhood. Period. Fact. Reality. You think that reality is hate. I suggest getting a dictionary, clearly you don’t know the meaning of certain things.

You deliberately ignore her family connections with the Muslim Brotherhood and her being directly connected to them at the same time and in the same place. This ignorance of these facts are exactly why the questions need to be raised.

School boards for one. My friend’s sister is a teacher’s assistant for the local school board. The board’s policy is that Wikipedia can only be used as a source in a school assignment if the citation in Wikipedia can also be supported from another book or website. That policy wouldn’t be necessary if Wikipedia were considered a reliable source of information.

It is not a “witch hunt” to take the position that a person with strong and well-substantiated ties, both familial and professional, to a faith deeply opposed to our culture and traditions, with many adherents committed to terrorism, should not be placed in a post with access to foreign policy decisions at the highest level – even if there is no evidence or proof of disloyalty. Even if the likelihood approaches zero.

This is known as prudence and commonsense, and a key consideration in any intelligence matters.

“It is not a “witch hunt” to take the position that a person with strong and well-substantiated ties, both familial and professional, to a faith deeply opposed to our culture and traditions, with many adherents committed to terrorism…”

So, no Muslims should be allowed in government. Unlike the Bachmann’s and co. you’re not denying it. I appreciate your honesty.

Being a Muslim is a conflict of interest; you cannot be a faithful Muslim and a citizen loyal to the US Constitution because the rights and duties set out in the US Constitution are antithetical to the rights and duties of being a faithful Muslim.

Anti-Papism was not some irrational prejudice. The pope was both a spiritual leader and a poweful secular ruler with strong connections to the enemies of England. He could, back then, be reasonably perceived as a threat to any non-Catholic polity.

(He is still the secular ruler [the prince] of a small territory known as the Vatican. But his secular power is so small that nobody would need to worry about a conflict of loyalties by modern-day Catholics. But, that was certainly not true two or three hundred years ago.)

But Huma Abedin is not simply a Muslim. Her close family relatives are members of a hostile foreign organization. If we were in World war II and a German-American person had a security clearance and a high level position in the State Department; and it came to be known that her CLOSE family relatives were members and officials of the Nazi apparatus, would you really object to calling for an investigation into the matter?

Your are playing a game with us, sort of a “TellMeBull” game. Rita Breuer has just printed a new book in German in Germany with the title translated as “In the Name of Allah? The Persecution of Christians”. Her book shows that Christians are being persecuted in EVERY country in the world where the majority population is dominant and always “in the Name of Allah”! Not ONE exception!!! The researcher expresses hopes that reform (= effective transformation of “In the Name of Allah”-believers into copycats of Protestants and Catholics in Germany) will be possible, but indicates little hope. She does not make any theological claims about the essence of Islam and violence (though the historian Emmet Scott does claim that Islam is uniquely violent like no other religion is or has been and traces said violence). Raymond Ibrahim of “Pundicity” gives monthly reports on the world wide persecution of Christians in Islamic lands. There is NO parallel of Muslim persecution by Christians that matches in any way the research results of Breuer or Ibrahim, just to mention two sources. When I am confronted with simple “empirical” evidence and when I read histories of the “Muslim Brotherhood”, well illustrated Morsi’s current desire to have freed the Blind Sheikh (= court convicted person who attempted literally to kill thousands upon thousands of Americans “in the Name of Allah”), it because a rational matter to want scrutiny of any person whose family is connected with and active in the Muslim Brotherhood or Sisterhood. In the 1930s in Germany Chaimberlain and other Brits ignored the explicit program spelled out by the Nazies (as clearly as Brotherhood texts spell out their program) and made “peace in our times” with Hitler which enableed Hitler to become more capable of war). The questions asked by Rep. Bachmann were not accusations, but worry because of familial connections of Adelin to a clearly subversive and terroristic favoring group. What, Mr. TellMeBull is per se anti-Muslim with my concerns? (By the way, a cousin of Adolf Hitler left Germany and preached and lectured against Hitler. Before he was allowed to join the American army he was investigated by the FBI for security risks. After the investigations, the man joing the American army.)

So that you may know I live in Germany in a neighborhood of Turks, Pakastani, Arabs and Kurds–all Muslims to one degree or another. They are, what Germany calls, European Muslims, though a neo-Sultan such as Erdogan can utter statements of a vile nature about Turks “assimilated” to German culture. We live in peace and harmony. There are Salafists here and they are closely watched by the police because they are by word and deed dangerous. Within a German context and with European Muslims (a very small minority of the total population) I would want security clearance of any such Muslim advising the gov. in the same way as I demand it of any non-Muslim German. However, should a Muslim apply to advise the German equivalent the the Sec. of State, I would balk at the idea that said person comes from a family of Salafists, even if said person has only printed cute magazines on growing flowers. “Salafists” in deed and in word are dangerous to the democratic nature of Germany. Connection with them poses needs of security checks. Muslim Brotherhood believers belong to a group as ideologically opposed to Western values as the Salafists. On that basis alone, I think Bachmann & Co’s raising questions of security are valid. Claims that I am against all Muslims is just “tellmebull” that, alas, you twist to put your opponents down. As a Christian I would not want try to open a Church in any Middle East “Muslim” countries. Ask the copts in Egypt about their problems. Were I a Muslim, I would legally and without any special problems be able to open a Mosque in Germany (and I live 10 feet from one next door).

Answer for me the following questions if you wish to tell more than the sum of bull: If you were a Christian, Jew, Buddhist, convert away FROM Islam, ferocious critic of Islam, professing atheist, open homosexual, secularist or just plain humanist or, worse of all, a woman disdaining islamic sharia; in which country would you want to live: Saudi Arabia or USA, Turkey or Germany? If you were a Christian in Syria which force is safer, i.e., threatens less persecutrion, Assad or a Sunni-led Brotherhood opposition? Do you recognized Jews as a nation? Do you accept that Israel is the state in which the Jewish nation has a political home? Fianlly, do you renounce the principles of the Muslim Brotherhood, enunciated at the beginning? I await you answers with bated breath.

Sorry to even say this, but Islam appears to be completely antithetical to our values and way of living. And I do know and have worked with Muslims who I liked but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t pave me over in a second if they had the chance.

The issue with Huma Abedin’s past and conflict of interest have to do with her being a deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, which allowed Huma to gain access to “for eyes-only” government secrets given to Clinton, and could be passing on some privileged informations to MB-associated persons. Her familial and professional connections to the MB and other Islamist groups, for which they advocate jihad and violence against the West, are nonetheless disturbing enough to warrant a serious conflict of interest there.

There were Soviet spies working in the US government and military for years (before, during, and after WW2) and they were Americans operating under the wings of powerful American politicians.

Hamas Weiner was an intern in the Clinton White House in the 90′s….now you know how she got her security clearance anyway….Funny how Hillary is so close to her, or, she’s so close to Hillary, whatever….same thing isn’t it?

No has accused Ms. Abedin (AKA Mrs. Former Congressman Weiner) of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. A high government position and/or security clearance is a privilege as McCarthy stated, denial of security clearance doesn’t mean a person has done wrong.
A security clearance given to the wrong person could put the American people in danger, it could help our enemies harm us.
Senator McCain, you know the guy who ran a terrible campaign and handed the presidency to a Marxist, was quick to attack Michelle Bachman for pointing out the danger of someone close to the Muslim Brotherhood on the staff of the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton should be, and likely is, aware of the danger but kisses up to Islaamic radicals.
As Mark Levin points out, McCain not only crosses the aisle, but puts on the other team’s uniform…
Guess Bachman is right again…and McCain is wrong as usual. I keep wondering when that demented, disgraced war hero will vacate his Senate seat to someone who will actually defend this country?

More bad affiliations by the Clintons…chinese donations,700 FBI files on Hillary’s desk…start of the housing market downfall(community re-investment act to get minorities into homes they couldn’t afford)…which we are doing all over again with Obama…we’ve forgotten how bad they were.

Remembering the beating Churchill took for the many years he stood alone as his countrymen mocked and shunned him, we need to circle the wagons around these five brave Americans and provide all the support we can to them, and to anyone else who has the courage to join their ranks, because no matter how long it takes, sooner or later all these rats are going to be cornered, and it’s becoming clearer by the day that their number is legion.

A close friend of mine does background security investigations for the federal government and has done so for many years. I asked him how someone with Abedin’s background could have gotten a federal security clearance for such a high position in the state dept. He replied that no one with her background could possibly pass a security check, but that it was not unusual for high ranking politicians to step in and over-ride the process. He went on to say that it was done routinely during the Clinton administration and has been done even more frequently by the criminals (my word, not his) currently occupying our government.

Prior to O’s election in 2008, I correctly predicted about 95% of his behavior as president. If anyone had seriously taken a look at the parts of his history that were available, they would have come to the same conclusions.

While one of the predictions I made was that he would cause harm to Israel and find ways to support Islamists, I never would have believed he would have gone as far as he has, because I believed he simply wouldn’t have been able to get away with it — for his first term, at least.

Well, I was wrong. Our political establishment is deeply rotten. As a young serviceman, McCain withstood torture for his country; but now, in his dotage, is willing to sell his country out for some kind of what he believes is political prestige.

Some have been looking at the Aurora mass murderer, and asking what is wrong with “us” that we produce his likes. I think that it’s wrong to place guilt on a whole nation for the crimes of some.

But I do have to ask “what is wrong with us?” that we have elected so many fools and scoundrels to Congress.

But I do have to ask “what is wrong with us?” that we have elected so many fools and scoundrels to Congress.

Don’t call ‘em fools, Aqua Man. They’re doing quite well at their mission. What makes it hard to keep things straight is the mission itself. Let us not forget that Prez Barack appointed a self-acknowledged Communist to a position in the White House as Green Jobs Czar in Van Jones. Now dig this: the Constitution does not authorize jobs creation, so it’s illegal. The green part is based on a scientific scam, never having offered a shred of scientific proof. Worse, Czars in the her and now are no more vetted by the population than Russian Czars of yore. Anyway, the green jobs went to China, at taxpayer expense, and the green “enterprises” are failing. And the green money given the green startups was openly traded for political favors. I could go on.

My point: what’s a few Moslems with direct access to national security secrets? Hell, the Infidel Idiots (most from the Ivy League) would divulge them to the Mo-Bro-Hood anyway. And without risk. Bill Keller’s treason on divulging the rendition sites at the New York Times raised nary a peep. True, Prez Barack Hussein’s revealing members of Seal Team 6 has raised a peep, but a cowardly peep that reduces “conservative” news entertainers asking whether the Prez authorized the revelations, with the nerve to ask this brave question with a straight face.

The good news is that Barack & Michelle might make some money on giving over hundreds of pages to the movie makers for the forthcoming action movie set in Pakistan.

“They’re doing quite well at their mission. What makes it hard to keep things straight is the mission itself. Let us not forget that Prez Barack appointed a self-acknowledged Communist to a position in the White House as Green Jobs Czar in Van Jones”

Are you saying John McCain isn’t a fool for attacking the Bachmann 5 — and now saying “Muslim Brotherhood MMM MMM MMM Good” — because the O appointed a Communist? Quite some logic you’ve got there.

You know, the problem here is that, even despite the 9-11 mass murders, too many lemmings believe the leftist lie that America deserved what it got! As if, for example, a home-owner must be supremely virtuous in order to defend his household. NO. No one, no country is supremely virtuous. Nevertheless, we — and the world’s nations — have a right to protect ourselves (and themselves) from lunatics, inspired by Satanic rage, whose reason for being is our annihilation.

And we will . . . protect ourselves, even if it means erring on the side of caution to limit possible, shall we say, “conflicts of interest,” in our own upper-echelon cabinet offices — and officers.

Too bloody bad that we come off as discriminatory, Islamophobic, or whatever other calumny the pathetic politically correct Greek Chorus throw at us. Tough. And too bad.

Too bad that when a neighborhood is presented with clear evidence that roving bands of thieves prowl the streets that decent and law-abiding citizens band together to thwart murder and mayhem. Too bad. Too bad for the bad guys.

When Dictator/War Criminal Obama first got elected, he bowed to the Saudi king, courted the Saudi/Qatar-sponsored Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Nazi JIHADIST ((the Muslim Brotherhood ‘s founder, Hasan al-banna was Hitler’s main collaborator/adviser alongside the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem and the Turkish Ottomans) in his first foreign speech – in Cairo, and soon removed the great Churchill’s statue from the White House (I suspect due to Churchill’s love for the Jews, hatred for the Nazis and his recognition of Islam’s evilness). Thus, we can guess how this daughter of the main leaders of the Muslim Sisterhood, the female JIHADIST branch of the MB, got her job, and as top aide to Hillary, of all people! Thus, is it any wonder also that Obama’s REGIME is arming (including through selling 60billions of weapons to the Saudis just before all these wars) these MB jihadists (that include al-Qaeda, Talebans, Salafists, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab etc) to Arabicize absolutely including by sexually enslaving all Muslim women/girls, especially greatly diverse non-Arabs, in those monstrous Saudi-Arabic veil since the 1980s according to the MB manifesto, and rob the OIL-RICH non-Arabic Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt and in the future, Syria and Lebanon. Unfortunately, in Islam-MB loving Amanpour yesterday on CNN, Romney’s top aide support the MB-led rebellion in Syria, that include to arm them – I think Romney is listening too much to the same war-mongering and oil-robbing Saudi/Qatar/MB-loving Republicans (that’s why they’re on the same side as the Obama’s REGIME) like that treacherous McCain there! Thus, Romney will be trapped into making the same War-Crime mistake as Obama!

Valerie Jarrett Obama’s closest aide is Shirazi: Jarrett is a member of African-American and Chicago royalty. But her story and her life begin in the Middle East, not the Midwest. She was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, about 570 miles south of Tehran.

In this house in Shiraz, Iran, the Báb declared his mission to Mullá Husayn on 23 May 1844.[7]

In 1942-3 it was damaged by fire in an attack by enemies of the Bahá’í Faith, and in 1955 it was destroyed, but later again restored. In 1979 it was destroyed once more during the Iranian Revolution. In 1981 the site was made into a road and public square.[7]

Don’t forget McCain’s partner in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and stabling Michele Bachmann in the back. His name is Marco Rubio. He has become John McCain’s new mini-me. I hope Lindsey Graham isn’t too distraught.

I fail to see the problem here. Obama with all his varios associations has obtained the highest security clearance in the world. We get the government we deserve. If Obama is not defeated, we will truly be living in the Socialist Republic of Amerika. Please God, deliver us from evil.

Anyone who has any marbles left must recognize the fact that Islam’s social intifada has been setting up Trojan Horses throughout the non-Muslim world, particularly in various levels of government. Team Obama, either to win Muslim favor or, indeed, to aid Islam has forbidden the utterance of the words Muslim and terrorist in the same sentence. Michelle Bachmann may go down in history for having forced the issue, not through direct accusation of individuals but with a request for investigation. This immediately rattled two factions – the culprits who have much to hide and the useful idiots who seem more ignorant than one can fathom. Hopefully, before November, team Romney will come to their senses and realize that a vast number of Americans by now understand what is going on, and by taking an intelligent stand in this issue, help rid the country of the most dangerous president in America’s history.

Pray that our Father in heaven will continue to expose every single evil and corrupt servant of darkness into the light. Use this kind of information to send to your Representatives in both houses. Let them know that you know about these things and you want to know why they do not or do and will not do anything about it. God can expose everything and He will do so if we turn to Him and ask Him for His truth to rule in Jesus. Never give up and never give in.

Is no one on Capitol Hill accountable for their actions any more? And, why are no background investigations done any more? America’s deepest secrets are being jeopardized by careless public servants and ‘not-me’ attitudes.

I’m embarrassed to say that I voted for McCain in the 2008 election.

Not only should Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-N.Y.) wife, undergo a full background investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), so should every person who intends to run for the House of Representatives, the US Senate, the presidency, and Supreme Court Justice positions. None shall be allowed to run or be appointed for and to US public office until a full background investigation is done.

As a prior military member, I had to undergo a complete FBI background check from my date of birth to the present in order to obtain a Secret security clearance. Why should members of Congress and above be exempt?

I would be very interested in reading the articles that Huma and her mother and brother worked on as editors. I have visited the site IMMA, JMMA but I cant download anything beyond 2012. If any one can post copies of these aritcles 1996-2008 it would be appreciated. As a former Soldier in the United States Army I learned that doing your own research counts for alot. Since the allegations that have been made are not enough to get any meaningful ivestigation under way, it seems that we the PEOPLE need to dig alittle futher. These days I dont trust ANY of my elected officials and I definately do not tust the media in any form.

Just by looking at the kind of open arms’s reception offered by the current Administration to a certain foreign’s entities, and the free access they obtained into the most sancta sanctorun securities secrets and operations, it came clearer to us why the EE.UU is rapidly and steadily loosing ground on every conceivable foreign’s theater of war and diplomacy.
Unfortunately, at this moment we don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel!!!!
All these boil down to the fact that we as a citizen of this country must urgently offer, without any hesitation on our part, a warm and unrestricted support in favor of the 5 members of our Congress that so gallantly took the fight against the enemy into their owns’s back-yard and with their’s own bare hands.